What do the parties in Saxony say on health and care?

The AfD wants to secure outpatient care, especially in structurally weak regions. It would lift the budget caps on doctors' practices and, where needed, set up municipal health centers with salaried doctors. The party still regards self-employed doctors, dentists and pharmacists as the backbone of care.

The AfD wants more doctors in rural areas. Doctors' offices should no longer have a budget cap. A budget cap means the office only gets a limited amount of money. Where doctors are missing, towns should run their own health centers. The AfD also wants to support mobile doctors' offices.

The AfD wants to train significantly more doctors at Saxon universities to counter the shortage of physicians. The Numerus Clausus (grade-based admission cutoff) would be dropped as the selection criterion, and the rural doctor quota would be expanded.

The AfD wants more places to study medicine in Saxony. School grades should no longer decide who gets a place. More places should go to future rural doctors. This is how the AfD wants to reduce the shortage of doctors.

The AfD wants to make sure emergency services meet the response times set by law. Rescue stations would be spread out more widely and given more staff and equipment.

Ambulances should reach patients fast enough. The law sets fixed times for this. The AfD wants more rescue stations in more places. They should get more staff and better equipment.

The AfD wants to advance telemedicine statewide and use financial incentives to promote the IT equipment it requires. Telemedicine is not meant to replace doctor visits in general, but to improve care in nursing homes and on-call services, for example.

The AfD wants more telemedicine. Telemedicine means doctor and patient talk by video. Doctors' offices and hospitals need good computer systems for this. The AfD wants to support that with money. Phone and paper should still stay available.

The AfD wants to completely abolish hospital billing by flat rates per case (the DRG system), which in its view puts economics ahead of people. At the same time, basic and emergency care would be preserved throughout Saxony, and the investment backlog would be cleared with a statutory minimum investment rate of 6 percent.

Hospitals today get fixed amounts for each case they treat. The AfD wants to end this system completely. Basic care and emergency care should exist everywhere in Saxony. Hospitals should get much more money for investments. A law should set a minimum share of 6 percent for this.

The AfD wants Saxony to cover the investment costs of nursing care facilities and calls for a tax-funded subsidy to long-term care insurance. According to the platform, this would allow the share paid by people in need of care to be capped at 400 euros.

Care in a nursing home costs people more and more of their own money. The AfD wants to change that. Saxony should pay the investment costs of the homes. Care insurance should get money from taxes. Then people in care would only pay 400 euros themselves.

The AfD wants to strengthen care at home and, following Bavaria's example, introduce a Landespflegegeld (state care allowance) of up to 400 euros a month from care level 2. It points out that most people in need of care want to stay in their own homes as long as possible.

Many people get care at home, often from relatives. The AfD wants to support this more. Saxony should pay its own care allowance. It should be up to 400 euros a month. People get it from care level 2.

The AfD wants to ease the burden on nursing staff with binding staffing rules, shorter working hours and pay brought into line nationwide. It also backs bringing back a mandatory service to society.

Nursing staff have a very heavy workload. The AfD wants fixed rules on how many staff there must be. Working hours should go down. Pay should be similar across Germany. The AfD also wants a mandatory service to society again.

The AfD wants a state parliament inquiry committee to examine the state government's COVID measures. People who suffered health damage after a COVID vaccination would receive support or compensation, and Saxony would build a structure for future pandemics.

The AfD wants the COVID period to be investigated. A committee in the state parliament should do this. It should examine the government's rules. People who got sick from the vaccine should get help or money. Saxony should also prepare better for new pandemics.

The BSW wants to end the privatization of health care, nursing care, and other essential services. Hospitals, medical care centers, and nursing homes should be run by municipalities or nonprofit providers. In the party's view, medical treatment must not serve profit.

The BSW wants no more sales to private companies. This applies to hospitals, nursing homes, water, and energy. Cities and towns should run these services. Nonprofit groups can also run them. The BSW says health should not be a business.

The BSW wants to secure outpatient care in rural areas through municipal medical centers, polyclinics, and community nurses. It also calls for expanded emergency medical services and a new medical university to counter the doctor shortage.

Rural areas will soon lack doctors. The BSW wants towns to run health centers there. Community nurses should return. Emergency services should improve. Saxony should get a new medical university.

The BSW wants to reduce supply shortages of medicines, vaccines, and medical devices. It proposes an early-warning system, larger stockpiles, domestic production, and stricter quality controls.

Sometimes important medicines are missing. The BSW wants earlier warnings about shortages. Wholesalers should keep more stock. Local companies should make key medicines themselves. Medical products should be checked more carefully.

The BSW wants to expand care for mental illness and start prevention early. It plans resilience training in schools, more community psychiatric services, and a statewide crisis service. The platform points to rising sick leave and early retirement.

More and more people have mental health problems. The BSW wants to help earlier. Students should learn to cope with stress. There should be a crisis service everywhere. Counseling should get money from the state.

The BSW wants to limit what nursing home residents must pay themselves: the amount should not exceed the average pension. The federal and state governments should reorganize the financing. The platform calls nursing homes a poverty trap because of rising costs.

A place in a nursing home costs a lot. The BSW wants to limit costs for residents. Nobody should pay more than an average pension. The federal and state governments should cover the rest.

The BSW wants to bundle all of the state's nursing care rules into one state care law. Municipalities would be required to carry out care planning paid for by the state, and in-person counseling would be available everywhere. The goal is caring for people in their familiar surroundings.

The BSW wants a new law for nursing care in Saxony. It should collect all care rules. Cities and towns must plan for care. The state pays for that. In-person advice should be available everywhere.

The BSW calls for a halt to hospital closures and wants to preserve all 76 hospital sites in Saxony. The state should fully cover hospitals' investment costs. In the party's view, the federal hospital reform could have severe consequences.

The BSW wants no hospital in Saxony to close. All 76 sites should stay. The state should pay for hospital investments. Some hospitals should get new tasks.

The BSW wants to use the Bundesrat (federal council of the states) to advance a citizens' insurance that everyone pays into. Long-term care insurance would come first. The platform calls the current system two-tier medicine that must be overcome.

Today there is public and private health insurance. The BSW wants one insurance for everyone. Every citizen should pay into it. This should start with nursing care. Saxony should back this in the federal council.

To tackle the doctor shortage in rural Saxony, the BSW wants to create a separate medical university in the long run. In the short term, scholarships for medical students who commit to working in Saxony should be greatly expanded.

Rural Saxony does not have enough doctors. So the BSW wants to found a new medical university. It also wants more scholarships for medical students. A scholarship is money for your studies. In return, these doctors later work in Saxony.

The CDU wants to expand the training of physicians and pharmacists, mainly to improve care in rural regions. To that end, the medical program in Pécs, Hungary, is to continue, the MEDiC program in Chemnitz is to be strengthened, and pharmacy training in Leipzig is to be expanded.

Rural areas do not have enough doctors. So the CDU wants to train more doctors. Young people from Saxony should keep studying medicine in Hungary. Medical studies in Chemnitz should also get better. More pharmacists should be trained in Leipzig.

The CDU wants to train more medical professionals and encourage them to open their own practices, including in rural areas. It plans more university places, quotas and residency networks, and faster recognition of professional qualifications.

The CDU wants more doctors in Saxony. There should be more places to study medicine. More places should go to future country doctors. Skilled workers from abroad should be allowed to work sooner.

The CDU wants to keep all hospital sites in the state and treats investment funding as a duty of the state government. It demands a say in the federal hospital reform and says Saxony will pass its own reform if necessary.

The CDU wants to keep all hospitals in Saxony. The state should pay for buildings and equipment. Saxony wants a say in the federal reform. Health centers should help in rural areas.

The CDU wants to keep local pharmacies throughout the state and give them more tasks. It also wants Saxony to remain a location for the pharmaceutical industry.

The CDU wants to keep pharmacies all over Saxony. Pharmacies should give more vaccinations. They should also offer more other services. More medicines should be made in central Germany.

The CDU wants to expand prevention, health education and the public health service. According to the program, illnesses should be prevented or detected earlier, before they become a problem.

The CDU wants to do more for prevention. People should learn more about healthy food and exercise. All children should get dental check-ups in groups. The public health offices should become stronger.

The CDU wants fast help to be available everywhere in Saxony in an emergency. To that end, the emergency number 112 and the on-call doctor service 116 117 are to be handled by one joint dispatch center.

The CDU wants fast help in an emergency. The emergency number 112 and the number 116 117 should work together. There should be one shared call center. School students should learn how to revive a person.

The CDU regards the legalization of cannabis as a major health risk and wants it corrected as quickly as possible. It intends to push for this at the federal level while strengthening addiction services.

Since 2024, cannabis has been partly legal in Germany. The CDU thinks this is dangerous. It wants to change the law back quickly. It also wants more help for people with addiction.

The CDU wants to press at the federal level for a fundamental reform of long-term care insurance and to break down the divide between care sectors. In Saxony, families who care for relatives are to get relief, for example through more day-care and short-term care places.

The CDU wants to rebuild long-term care insurance. It will push for this at the federal level. Families care for many people at home. They should get more help, such as more short-term care places.

The CDU wants people at the end of life to receive good medical and nursing care. Home hospice services and palliative teams are to be strengthened, and inpatient hospices are to be evenly spread between cities and rural areas.

The CDU wants good help for dying people. Hospice services should get more support. A hospice cares for people at the end of life. Families who lose a child should also get support.

The Free Voters want to secure basic medical care across the state, including through health centers modeled on the "Poliklinik" (multi-doctor outpatient clinic). Nursing care is to be provided more on an outpatient basis and in small facilities close to home. To address staff shortages, the party relies on less paperwork, retraining, and quick recognition of foreign qualifications.

The Free Voters want good doctors and care everywhere in Saxony. Rural areas should have health centers too. Care homes should be small and close to home. Doctors and nurses should have less paperwork. Skilled workers from abroad should be allowed to work sooner.

The Greens want health insurers to pay for contraceptives in a socially fair way and abortions to be available close to home. Fertility treatment is to get more support, regardless of partnership status and also for lesbian couples and trans, intersex and nonbinary people.

The Greens want health insurance to pay for birth control. Women should be able to end a pregnancy close to home. People who want children should get more money for treatment. This should also apply to singles and lesbian couples. Schools should offer free period products.

The Greens want to secure local medical care through regional health centers, more practice assistants and incentives for family doctors in rural areas. They also want more training and university places and more responsibilities for non-physician health professions.

The Greens want more family doctors in rural areas. Money should serve as an incentive. There should be regional health centers. More people should be able to train for a health job. Pharmacies and therapists should get more tasks.

The Greens demand that the state at least double its investment funding for hospitals. According to the platform, this would let Saxony meet its legal obligations and cover the hospitals' investment needs in full for the first time.

Hospitals need money for buildings and equipment. This money comes from the state of Saxony. The Greens want to pay at least twice as much. Small local hospitals should stay.

The Greens want to expand counseling close to where people live and better connect social work, psychiatry and therapy. An initiative is meant to remove stigma from mental health and build knowledge about it.

More and more people have mental illnesses. The Greens want more counseling nearby. Helpers should work together better. A campaign should show that people can talk openly about mental problems.

The Greens call for a dedicated care law for Saxony that addresses quality, local structures and needs planning. They also support a nursing chamber as the self-governing body of care workers and want better working conditions in home care.

The Greens want a separate care law for Saxony. Care workers should get their own representation. It is called a nursing chamber. Work in care should get better. Relatives who provide care should get help.

The Greens want to help people with addiction quickly and without stigma, relying on prevention, youth protection and help rather than punishment. Drug consumption rooms would be expanded, drug checking piloted and addiction services adequately equipped in all regions.

The Greens want to help addicted people instead of punishing them. There should be more rooms where people can take drugs more safely. People should be able to test drugs for dangerous substances. Ads for alcohol and nicotine should be banned in public places.

The Left wants to keep every hospital site in Saxony, if necessary as a polyclinic with a round-the-clock emergency room. It rejects closures without replacement because it sees basic care at risk.

No hospital in Saxony should close completely. Some can become a polyclinic. Many doctors work there under one roof. Emergencies should be treated there day and night.

The Left wants to bring hospitals back into public ownership and ban profit distributions from hospital operations. The state should adequately fund investments, and the flat-rate per-case payments should be replaced by cost-covering budgets.

Hospitals should belong to towns and districts again. The state should provide at least 100 million euros for this. Hospitals should not be allowed to pay profits to owners. The state should give more money for modern hospitals.

The Left wants to bring everyone into the statutory health insurance system and abolish the contribution assessment ceiling. In the long term, it also calls for long-term care insurance that covers all costs; in the short term, out-of-pocket care costs should be capped.

Everyone should pay into the same health insurance. Today, people pay contributions only up to a certain income limit. This limit should go. Rich people would then pay more. Care insurance should later cover all costs.

The Left wants to tackle the shortage of family doctors with measures that work in the short term. These include state-funded digitalization of practices, less paperwork, regularly adjusted physician pay and an end to budget caps on treatment.

Saxony does not have enough family doctors. The Left wants to give doctors' offices more help. The state should pay for digital equipment. Doctors should fill out fewer forms. Health insurers should not limit treatment because of money.

The Left wants to implement the national health goal "Gesund rund um die Geburt" (healthy around birth). Maternity clinics, birth centers and freelance midwives should be available close to home everywhere in Saxony so that people can freely choose where to give birth.

The Left wants better care for pregnant women and mothers. There should be maternity clinics and midwives all over Saxony. Women should choose where they give birth. There should be more delivery rooms led by midwives.

The Left wants to rebuild the public health service, which it says was neglected for decades. A state health office is to coordinate the work of local health departments.

The Left wants stronger public health offices. They advise people and protect against infections. Saxony should get its own state health office. It should help local offices work together.

The Left wants to expand care for people with mental illness, arguing that cases have risen while therapy places have not. Care should be non-violent and community-based, and crisis intervention should work reliably.

More and more people have mental illnesses. Many wait a long time for therapy. The Left wants to improve help. Help should be close to home. People in a crisis should get help fast.

The Left wants to go beyond federal decriminalization and allow tested cannabis to be sold in licensed shops. The party says this would protect health and push back the black market. Addiction services and prevention are to be expanded at the same time.

Cannabis is partly allowed in Germany. The Left wants more. Adults should be able to buy tested cannabis in licensed shops. This should shrink illegal dealing. There should also be more help for addiction.

The Left wants pregnant people everywhere in Saxony to find ideologically neutral pregnancy conflict counseling near them. An abortion should also be available close to home and without obstacles. The state is to fund the counseling in full.

Pregnant people should find neutral counseling near their home. Anyone who wants to end a pregnancy should be able to do so nearby. There should be no obstacles. The state should pay for all of the counseling.

The Left wants to ease the burden on care workers and bring their wages up to western German levels, with at least 3,000 euros gross per month. To attract more skilled staff, training places are to be expanded and the state is to pay trainee wages.

Care workers in Saxony earn less than in western Germany. The Left wants to change that. Care workers should get at least 3,000 euros a month before taxes. There should be more training places. The state should pay trainees' wages.

The Left wants to support people who care for relatives at home with job leave, wage replacement and pension credits. Home and outpatient care are to take priority over nursing homes. Regional needs planning and a state care commissioner are to steer care in the state.

Many people care for relatives at home. The Left wants to help them. They should be able to pause their job and return later. They should get money during this time. Care time should count toward their pension.

In the long run, the Left wants long-term care insurance that covers all care services and that all groups of earners pay into. Until then, the federal government is to cap residents' out-of-pocket shares. As a stopgap, the state is to subsidize care homes' investment costs and pay a state care allowance.

Care costs more and more for those who need it. The Left wants insurance that pays all care costs. Everyone should pay in, including civil servants and the self-employed. Until then, people's own share should be capped. Saxony should also pay a state care allowance.

The Left wants drug policy to put health protection in place of criminal prosecution. Possession of illegal substances would no longer be a crime, in the long run for all drugs. Addiction services, prevention and offerings such as drug checking and supervised consumption rooms would be expanded.

The Left wants to help people with addiction instead of punishing them. Having drugs should no longer be a crime. There should be more counseling and help. Towns should be allowed to open consumption rooms. There, people take drugs under supervision.

The SPD in Saxony supports the federal reform of hospital financing and emergency care. Hospitals are no longer to be paid solely through per-case flat rates so that, according to the platform, medical need comes before economic benefit.

The federal government wants to pay hospitals differently. The SPD in Saxony supports this. Hospitals should also get money for being ready to treat people. Rural hospitals should benefit from this.

The SPD stands by the Bürgerversicherung (citizens' insurance), a single health insurance system for everyone, and wants to push for it at the federal level. It aims to end what it calls two-tier medicine.

The SPD wants one health insurance for everyone. It is called citizens' insurance. Then there is no more split into public and private insurance. The SPD wants to push for this at the federal level.

The SPD pledges that emergency, basic and acute care will remain available close to home everywhere in Saxony. At the same time, hospitals are to specialize in focus areas, and health centers are to preserve small rural sites.

The SPD wants emergency help to be close by everywhere. Health centers should be set up in rural areas. Hospitals should specialize in certain illnesses. The state and towns should keep investing in hospitals.

The SPD wants to bring more people into health professions and deploy existing staff more effectively. To do so, it calls for binding minimum staffing levels and closer integration of outpatient and hospital care.

The SPD wants more staff in hospitals and care homes. There should be fixed rules on the minimum number of staff. Doctors' offices and hospitals should work together more closely. Working conditions should get better.

The SPD wants to push back economic pressure in hospital care and build care structures fit for the future. In its view, health and long-term care must not depend on a person's income.

The SPD wants hospitals to focus less on making money. Care should get better. Good treatment should not depend on how much money people have. Everyone should get good care.

The SPD wants to press at the federal level for a reform of long-term care insurance so that everyone can afford care. In Saxony, it plans to expand short-term care, fund care places directly and create a state care law.

The SPD wants everyone to be able to afford care. For that, care insurance should be changed. There should be more places for short-term care. This helps people who care for relatives. Saxony should get its own care law.

The SPD wants employers and employees in Saxony to fund long-term care insurance in equal shares again. No public holiday is to be given up in exchange.

In Saxony, workers pay more for long-term care insurance than their employers. The SPD wants to change that. Both should pay the same. No public holiday should be lost for this.

The SPD wants to expand addiction prevention and support services and backs the federal plan to decriminalize cannabis and bring it under state control. According to the platform, this makes effective prevention and action against the black market possible.

The SPD wants more help for people with addiction. Children and teenagers should get help quickly. The SPD also supports the federal plan on cannabis. Cannabis should no longer be a crime. The state should control how it is handled.

The SPD wants to keep acute care at every hospital location in Saxony. Doctors' offices, health centers, emergency services, hospitals and care facilities are to cooperate more closely, and care services in rural areas are to be expanded.

The SPD wants to keep emergency care at all hospital sites in Saxony. Doctors, hospitals, ambulance services and care homes should work together more closely. Rural areas should get more care services. Digital health services should grow too.

The SPD wants long-term care not to depend on income and calls for a cap on patients' own contributions. At the federal level it wants all options considered, including full-coverage care insurance.

Long-term care has become very expensive. Everyone should get care, even with little money. The SPD wants to limit what people pay themselves. It wants to achieve this at the federal level. One option is insurance that pays all care costs.

The SPD wants to win more staff for health professions through training, career changers, returnees and financially supported immigration. To address the shortage of family doctors in rural areas, the 20-point program and the rural doctor quota are to continue.

Clinics, practices and care homes lack skilled staff. The SPD wants to train more people. It also wants to support skilled workers from abroad with money. Rural areas lack family doctors. Programs for rural doctors should continue.

The SPD wants to keep investing in hospitals and to use money from the Sachsenfonds 2050 for this. Where necessary, hospitals are to return to municipal ownership. Health centers are to secure care in rural areas.

The SPD wants to put money into hospitals. Some of the money should come from a special fund. Some hospitals should belong to towns and counties again. Rural areas should have health centers. There, doctors' offices and hospitals work together.

The SPD wants to set up a state health office to coordinate the regional health authorities. Children who attend the U9 preventive checkup are to receive 100 euros. The public health service and addiction prevention are to be strengthened.

Saxony should get a state health office. It should coordinate the local health offices. Children get 100 euros for going to the U9 checkup. Health offices should have better-trained staff. There should be more prevention against addiction.

The SPD wants to draft a state care law together with municipalities that clearly divides tasks between the state and municipalities. Care coordinators, short-term care and neighborhood help are to keep receiving funding. Family caregivers are to get better information.

Saxony should get a state care law. It sets out who is responsible for what. There should be more places for short-term care. Neighborhood helpers should keep helping. Family members who give care should get better information.